Assessing the Components of Social Sustainability in the Historical Bazaar of Tabriz based on the Perspectives of the Merchants

Today, despite the extensive changes in urban communities, the Bazzar has been able to maintain its social role. Considering the importance of the Bazzar as a center for social activities, the main purpose of this study is to measure the degree of social stability in the historical Bazzar of Tabriz based on the views of active traders.

The research method is descriptive-analytical. Data analysis was performed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Shapiro-Wilk, Kruskal-Wallis and Spearman tests.

showed that all components of social sustainability are interdependent. A change in any of the components will lead to a change in the other components. Among these, the highest correlation between the component of sense of belonging and social interactions with the value of 0.902 is the correlation between the two components of social interaction and social security with the value of 0.896 and the component of sense of belonging and satisfaction with the value of 0.893 are in the next order. The lowest correlation between the identity-social monitoring component is 0.574. In comparison between the lowest correlation, the correlation between the dual variables of identity-social security and identity-sense of belonging, identity-social interactions are 0.640, 0.645 and 0.652, respectively. Accordingly, the identity component has the least degree of dependence on other components of social stability.

It was found that the role and importance of the Bazzar as a platform for social activities has not changed over time and is still stable in the minds of active traders in the Bazzar.